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Statius' Silvae and the poetics of Empire
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ISBN: 052180891X 0521126118 1107124840 0511020007 0511176260 0511157029 0511482329 1280433779 0511044771 9780511020001 9780511482328 9781280433771 9780521808910 9780511044779 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Statius' Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81-96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or private wealth by new poetic strategies and forms. As poems of praise, they delight in poetic excess whether they honour the emperor or the poet's friends. Yet extravagant speech is also capacious speech. It functions as a strategy for conveying the wealth and grandeur of villas, statues and precious works of art as well as the complex emotions aroused by the material and political culture of empire. The Silvae are the product of a divided, self-fashioning voice. Statius was born in Naples of non-aristocratic parents. His position as outsider to the culture he celebrates gives him a unique perspective on it. The Silvae are poems of anxiety as well as praise, expressive of the tensions within the later period of Domitian's reign.

Reading after Actium : Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome
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ISBN: 0472114751 9786612597695 047202583X 1282597698 9780472114757 9780472025831 9781282597693 6612597690 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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Actium, Battle of, 31 B.C. --- Agriculture in literature. --- Didactic poetry, Latin --- Emperors in literature. --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- Augustus, --- Virgil --- In literature. --- Influence. --- Political and social views. --- Rome --- Actium, Battle of, 31 B.C --- Agriculture in literature --- Emperors in literature --- History and criticism --- Vergil --- Virgile --- Virgilio Máron, Publio --- Virgilius Maro, Publius --- Vergili Maronis, Publius --- Octavius Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius, --- Octavius, Gaius, --- Octavianus, --- Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar, --- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- Octavian, --- Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian Avgust, --- Oktavian-Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ, --- Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian, --- Octavianus Augustus, --- Augusto, --- Cesarz August, --- Ogusṭus, --- Augustus Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius Thurinus, --- Octavio Augusto, --- Cayo Octavio Turino, --- Thurinus, Gaius Octavius, --- Turino, Cayo Octavio, --- אוגוסטוס --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- In literature --- Political and social views --- Influence --- Virgilius Maro, Publius, --- Virgilio Marone, P., --- Vergilīĭ, --- Virgile, --- Vergílio, --- Wergiliusz, --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ, --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P., --- Vergil, --- Virgilio, --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P., --- Virgil Maro, P., --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil, --- Pseudo Virgilio, --- Virgilio Marón, Publio, --- Bhārjila, --- Vergilius Maro, P. --- Vergilius --- Virgilio Marone, P. --- Vergilīĭ --- Vergílio --- Wergiliusz --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P. --- Virgilio --- Virgilius Maro, P. --- Virgil Maro, P. --- Pseudo-Virgil --- Pseudo Virgilio --- Virgilio Marón, Publio --- Bhārjila --- Marone, Publio Virgilio --- Politics and literature - Rome --- Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Virgil. - Georgica --- Augustus, - Emperor of Rome, - 63 B.C.-14 A.D. - In literature --- Virgil - Political and social views --- Augustus, - Emperor of Rome, - 63 B.C.-14 A.D. - Influence --- Augustus, - Emperor of Rome, - 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

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